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Robert Stewart Culin (July 13, 1858 – April 8, 1929) was an American ethnographer and author interested in games, art and dress. [1] Culin played a major role in the development of ethnography, first concentrating his efforts on studying the Asian-Americans workers in Philadelphia.
The history of games dates to the ancient human past. [3] Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome ...
Mansion of Happiness was also based on a previously extant British game, while Travellers' Tour was a wholly American creation. [5] A sister game, Travellers' Tour Through Europe, was released a few months after. [2] [6] [7] This was later followed by Travellers' Tour Round the World. [8] A new version of the game was published in 1842. [9]
Joe Andrews is the author of four card game books, and director of Grand Prix "live" card game tournaments (1999-2011). He is also a columnist for various online gaming sites.
Game studies, also known as ludology (from ludus, "game", and -logia, "study", "research") or gaming theory, is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them. It is a field of cultural studies that deals with all types of games throughout history.
Traditional games historically played a significant role in street life in New York City. During the 1900s, efforts were made to push children away from the dangers of street traffic and towards playing on newly built playgrounds, with the objective of avoiding certain unwanted behaviors (such as spreading glass so that cars couldn't drive on the streets).
Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents. Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864. In the 1937 edition of Foster's Complete Hoyle, R. F. Foster wrote: "the game of poker, as first played in the United States, five cards to each player from a twenty-card pack, is undoubtedly the Persian game of As-Nas."
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” So wrote Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), more than 200 years ago. Far-fetched, perhaps, but worth pondering.